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Lexi Churchill

Lexi Churchill is a Scripps Howard research reporting fellow at ProPublica. Before joining ProPublica, Lexi interned at CNBC, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the Columbia Daily Tribune, and KCUR 89.3, Kansas City’s NPR affiliate. Her reporting on the University of Missouri’s Title IX appeals process won the GateHouse Public Service Award for 2018. Lexi graduated from Mizzou in 2019 with a degree in investigative convergence journalism.
Digital Government

Texas lawmakers pull funding for child identification kits again after newsrooms report they don’t work

For the second legislative session, lawmakers have withdrawn funding for a company selling kits that promise to help find missing kids after ProPublica and The Texas Tribune reported there’s no evidence to support that claim.

  • By Lexi Churchill, ProPublica
Public Safety

Texas lawmakers want to spend millions on Child ID kits. Experts say there’s no evidence they work.

Texas legislators slipped millions for child ID kits into a 1,000-page budget proposal. The move comes two years after they quietly cut funding for such kits following a ProPublica and Texas Tribune report that showed there’s no evidence they work.

  • By Lexi Churchill, The Texas Tribune
Management

Active shooter training: State-specific requirements for schools and law enforcement

No states mandate annual active shooter training for police officers, according to an analysis by The Texas Tribune, ProPublica and FRONTLINE. In comparison, at least 37 states require such training in schools, typically on a yearly basis.

  • By Lexi Churchill and Lomi Kriel, The Texas Tribune